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Minimum storage regenerating codes have minimum storage of data in each node and therefore are maximal distance separable (MDS for short) codes. Thus, the number of nodes is upper bounded by $2^{\fb}$, where $\fb$ is the bits of data stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lingfei Jin , Yuan Luo , Chaoping Xing

In this paper, we study vector codes with all-symbol locality, where the local code is either a Minimum Bandwidth Regenerating (MBR) code or a Minimum Storage Regenerating (MSR) code. In the first part, we present vector codes with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 M. Nikhil Krishnan , Anantha Narayanan R. , P. Vijay Kumar

An early paper by Rashmi et. al. presented the construction of an $(n,k,d=n-1)$ MBR regenerating code featuring the inherent double replication of all code symbols and repair-by-transfer (RBT), both of which are important in practice. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-01 M. Nikhil Krishnan , P. Vijay Kumar

Distributed storage systems for large-scale applications typically use replication for reliability. Recently, erasure codes were used to reduce the large storage overhead, while increasing data reliability. A main limitation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

The increasing demand for data storage has prompted the exploration of new techniques, with molecular data storage being a promising alternative. In this work, we develop coding schemes for a new storage paradigm that can be represented as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Boaz Moav , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

Regenerating codes based on the approach of interference alignment for wireless interference channel achieve the cut-set bound for distributed storage systems. These codes provide data reliability, and perform efficient exact node repair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Natasa Paunkoska , Ninoslav Marina , Venceslav Kafedziski

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) are error correcting codes used in distributed data storage. A traditional approach is to look for codes which simultaneously maximize error tolerance and minimize storage space consumption. However, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Antti Pöllänen

We introduce the Fixed Cluster Repair System (FCRS) as a novel architecture for Distributed Storage Systems (DSS), achieving a small repair bandwidth while guaranteeing a high availability. Specifically we partition the set of servers in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

In distributed storage systems that employ erasure coding, the issue of minimizing the total {\it repair bandwidth} required to exactly regenerate a storage node after a failure arises. This repair bandwidth depends on the structure of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

In large scale distributed storage systems (DSS) deployed in cloud computing, correlated failures resulting in simultaneous failure (or, unavailability) of blocks of nodes are common. In such scenarios, the stored data or a content of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Gokhan Calis , O. Ozan Koyluoglu

As storage systems grow in size, device failures happen more frequently than ever before. Given the commodity nature of hard drives employed, a storage system needs to tolerate a certain number of disk failures while maintaining data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Yan Wang , Xunrui Yin , Xin Wang

In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure coding is employed to ensure reliability against disk failures. Recent work by Kadekodi et al. demonstrates that adapting code parameters to varying disk failure rates can lead to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Vinayak Ramkumar , Xiangliang Kong , G. Yeswanth Sai , Myna Vajha , M. Nikhil Krishnan

MDS (maximum distance separable) array codes are widely used in storage systems due to their computationally efficient encoding and decoding procedures. An MDS code with r redundancy nodes can correct any r erasures by accessing (reading)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Zhiying Wang , Itzhak Tamo , Jehoshua Bruck

We study the exact-repair tradeoff between storage and repair bandwidth in distributed storage systems (DSS). We give new inner bounds for the tradeoff region and provide code constructions that achieve these bounds.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Sreechakra Goparaju , Salim El Rouayheb , Robert Calderbank

The locally repairable codes (LRCs) were introduced to correct erasures efficiently in distributed storage systems. LRCs are extensively studied recently. In this paper, we first deal with the open case remained in \cite{q} and derive an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jun Zhang , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge

We consider the rack-aware storage system where \(n\) nodes are organized in \(\bar{n}\) racks each containing \(u\) nodes, and any \(k\) nodes can retrieve the stored file. Moreover, any single node erasure can be recovered by downloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Zhifang Zhang , Liyang Zhou

This paper investigates the use of redundancy and self repairing against node failures in distributed storage systems, using various strategies. In replication method, access to one replication node is sufficient to reconstruct a lost node,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Abbas Kiani , Soroush Akhlaghi

In a distributed storage system, code symbols are dispersed across space in nodes or storage units as opposed to time. In settings such as that of a large data center, an important consideration is the efficient repair of a failed node.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , M. Nikhil Krishnan , Myna Vajha , Vinayak Ramkumar , Birenjith Sasidharan , P. Vijay Kumar

Erasure codes play an important role in storage systems to prevent data loss. In this work, we study a class of erasure codes called Multi-Erasure Locally Recoverable Codes (ME-LRCs) for storage arrays. Compared to previous related works,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Pengfei Huang , Eitan Yaakobi , Paul H. Siegel

The information-theoretic secure exact-repair regenerating codes for distributed storage systems (DSSs) with parameters $(n,k=d,d,\ell)$ are studied in this paper. We consider distributed storage systems with $n$ nodes, in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Adel Elmahdy , Michelle Kleckler , Soheil Mohajer